AAUW advances equity for women and girls
through research, education, and advocacy.

Salem Branch Strategic Plan 2022

PUBLIC POLICY has been a cornerstone of AAUW member involvement since its founding in 1881. Child labor and access to public education were among the first issues the early AAUW members studied and worked toward. Today’s issues include access to health care, pay equity, sexual harassment, protection of Title IX, and protecting social security benefits for women and children. AAUW resources include the Woman to Woman voter turn-out manual, Pay Equity manual, online RSS feeds, emailed Washington Update, Mission and Action and Two-Minute Activist. For a more complete list and ways you can learn more about the issues and ways to affect change, check the Association website.

RESEARCH PROJECTS have put AAUW on the map starting with the 1985 study that revealed teachers were unintentionally giving preferential treatment to boys in classroom. Hostile Hallways highlighted the covert and overt ways that girls were threatened in school and the lack of resolution available to those who raised the issue.  Pay inequity was highlighted in the 2007 Behind the Pay Gap projects that concluded women make less money than men with the same job description beginning in their first years after college graduation.  For a more information, check the Association website.

AAUW OF OREGON promotes AAUW projects and issues through leadership training, legislative work and ongoing electronic and live communication. Our state has 24 branches: Albany, Ashland, Astoria, Baker, Beaverton, Eugene-Lane, Grants Pass, Gresham Area, Hillsboro/Forest Grove, Lake Oswego, Lakeview, Lincoln City, Medford, Pendleton, Portland, Redmond, Roseburg, Salem, Seaside, The Dalles, Tigard Area, Tillamook, Wallowa County, Yamhill County, and one electronic, Oregon Online Branch.

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS are growing to help women around the world each year. AAUW works closely with the United Nations and U.S. Department of State to improve the status of women throughout the world.